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Aspose Newsletter for December 2012 has now been published that highlights all the newly supported features offered in the recent releases of its JasperReports exporters, SQL Server rendering extensions, .NET, Java & SharePoint components. This month’s technical article shows migration to Aspose.Slides for Java 3.0.0 & a migration tip for finding and replacing Text with Aspose.Slides for .NET vs VSTO. The video tutorial shows how to merge two presentations with Aspose.Slides for Java.

If you’ve been visiting Aspose.com recently you’ll know that we released Aspose.Slides for Java 3.0.0 last month. This is the first version of Aspose.Slides for Java that’s been autoported from Aspose.Slides for .NET. We, and many of our customers, are excited about this release because it brings a host of new features to our Java users: printing presentations, PPT to PPTX conversion and support for charts, to mention some. From now on, we’ll match each Aspose.Slides for .NET release with an Aspose.Slides for Java release. Our .NET and Java customers get the same features at the same time. It is a great step forward for our users and it’s great for us too: we only have one code base to maintain so we can focus on new features.

Special Holiday Offer: 25% off Aspose.Total

Aspose.Slides is one of the products included in Aspose.Total. In honor of the holidays, we’re offering 25% off Aspose.Total until the end of January. Simply quote XMAS2012NL when placing your order. The discount applies to purchases only and is not valid for renewals. Place order here

Product Spotlight: Aspose.Slides </strong

Aspose.Slides helps you work with Microsoft PowerPoint files from within your own applications. Use Aspose.Slides for SSRS or JasperReports to export reports to native Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Use Aspose.Slides for SharePoint to convert PowerPoint presentations to other file formats, like PDF. Or use Aspose.Slides for .NET or Java to create, convert and manipulate presentations from within .NET or Java applications. Create slide stacks, automate monthly presentations, convert to images or change formatting, content and images. Aspose.Slides gives you the control you need. Download a trial. Click here to download the latest version.

Technical Article – Migrating to Aspose.Slides for Java 3.0.0

Aspose.Slides for Java 3.0.0 has a lot of new features. To facilitate automatic porting, we had to restructure the API and change a number of method names. To help you update your code, we’ve listed all the changes and written a detailed article about migration. Click below to read the complete article.

Tutorial Video – Merging Two Presentations with Aspose.Slides for Java

Aspose.Slides for Java has a clever system for merging presentations: simply access the presentations you want to merge and clone the slides to a target presentation. This video tutorial shows how to merge two presentations, bringing across both slides and slide notes, using Aspose.Slides for Java. Click here to watch vidoe tutorial about Merging Two Presentations with Aspose.Slides for Java

Sometimes, you might need to find text in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and replace it with a new string. Say, for example, that the name of a department changes, or a key member of staff is replaced. Instead of manually correcting every instance of a word or name, you can do it programmatically, saving time and effort. You can use VSTO but we recommend freeing yourself from Microsoft Automation and using Aspose.Slides for .NET instead. Read the complete migration tip about Finding and Replacing Text with Aspose.Slides for .NET vs VSTO.

Half-Day Technical Workshop on December 7, Will Examine Best Practices for Achieving Enterprise IT Goals, Increasing Productivity, and Reducing Costs

Palo Alto, CA – December 3, 2012 – Today enterprise applications require efficient, reliable, flexible and manageable building practices. Additionally, organizations must respond to the growing demands of enterprise IT, including the management of mobile devices and huge volumes of data. In a half-day workshop for IT architects and developers, WSO2 will explore how to optimize enterprise IT best practices by choosing a targeted set of capabilities for any given project using the WSO2 middleware platform.

The workshop, “Addressing Modern Enterprise Challenges with the WSO2 Platform,” will be held on Friday, December 7, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., in Bangalore, India. Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 vice president of business development and product design will lead the workshop. For more information, visit: http://wso2.com/events/workshops/2012-december-bangalore-addressing-modern-enterprise-challenges-with-the-wso2-platform-workshop.

Addressing Modern Enterprise Challenges
The workshop is designed for IT architects and developers seeking to obtain a high-level understanding of WSO2’s platform architecture and capabilities. It will explore how to get started with the WSO2 platform. Additionally, it will examine how enterprises can increase productivity while reducing cost with components of the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform (http://wso2.com/products/carbon). The workshop will be organized along six topics:
* Get Lean and Flexible will provide an introduction to the WSO2 Carbon component framework.
* Getting Connected will examine the WSO2 service-oriented architecture (SOA) and integration platform.
* Keeping it Organized will look at the WSO2 governance and identity platform.
* Improve Productivity will explore the WSO2 application development platform.
* Address Emerging Enterprise Challenges will discuss APIs, ecosystems, cloud, big data, and mobile.
* Understanding WSO2’s Open Source Business and Engagement Model will present WSO2’s vision for reinventing middleware technologies.

Workshop Presenter
Jonathan Marsh is WSO2 vice president of business development and product design. He has more than 15 years of experience helping to develop, standardize and promote core XML and Web services standards, and he previously served as an active member in the W3C and WS-I working groups and OASIS technical committees. Jonathan joined WSO2 in 2006 as the director of mashup technologies, leading the design and development of the WSO2 Mashup Server. Previously, Jonathan led the development of various Web services standards at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded and served as design director of Walkabout Software, which Microsoft acquired.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Saaspose Newsletter for December 2012 has now been published that highlights all newly added information, exciting new features & informative blogs about Saaspose APIs & SDKs. This month Saaspose.Words, Saaspose.Slides & Saaspose.Cells have introduced new features for manipulating word documents, convert presentations to images, convert workbook elements to images and extract text from images, Saaspose SDK for Android introduction, Windows Azure Storage Integration with Saaspose & many more.

Tip of the Month: Tip of the Month: Integrate Windows Azure Storage with Saaspose API

Saaspose development team has been continuously putting efforts in providing you the best experience of document manipulation in the cloud. You can now store your files in the cloud through Windows Azure storage and process your documents with the help of Saaspose file format APIs. We have previously introduced 3rd party platforms such as Amazon S3, Dropbox and Google Drive for integration with Saaspose APIs and we are working on more storage providers as per your feedback. The configuration of Windows Azure storage is simple and quick, and you can integrate it with Saaspose through a set of simple steps. You can upload your documents on Windows Azure storage and choose from a variety of features to manipulate the documents. Enjoy the flexibility to process your files from external storage provider with the required features. Keep tuned in to our blog, and documentation. Click here to view more about windows Azure storage integration with Saaspose APIs.

Use Saaspose SDK for Android Applications

Looking for Android applications for your document processing tasks? There is great news for Android developers across the globe to integrate feature-rich APIs in the applications to manipulate the documents. We are currently working on Saaspose SDKs for Android to facilitate the Android developers use a variety of document manipulation features in the applications. You can enhance the performance of your android applications by using Saaspose REST APIs and integrate the required features to manipulate different file formats in the cloud. You can add these Saaspose APIs in your Android applications easily and utilize the SDKs as per your requirements. For instance, you can extract text from documents, calculate formula in worksheets, convert PDF to images, extract images and slides from presentations and perform many such operations on the documents in your Android applications. You can opt for the free development account to evaluate these APIs for your Android applications. Stay tuned to our blog and newsletter for latest updates on Android SDKs and the release announcements. Click here to view more about Saaspose SDK for Android Applications.

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During the month of November 2012, we have added many examples for various features of Saaspose file format APIs in our documentation. These examples have been added in Saaspose.Words, Saapose.Cells and Saaspose.Barcode. You can utilize these examples in PHP and incorporate features in the applications such as execute mail merge, split excel document, recognize barcode with checksum option, convert document to different file formats etc. You may view a complete list of examples for each API in the following announcement posts

During the month of November 2012, we have introduced new features in our SDKs for different programming languages like .NET, Ruby, and PHP. There is a list of features available for each API on Github and you can download the required SDK. The new features are added in most of our APIs such as Saaspose.Words, Saaspose.Cells, Saaspose.Slides etc. These features include execute mail merge template, append a list of documents, convert presentations to other file formats, save barcode etc . For more details, you may refer to the following announcement about Saaspose REST API Features Implemented in SDKs During the Month of November 2012

Saaspose.Barcode API allows you to generate barcode images in various formats and recognize barcode from those images as well. You can also set the image resolution of the barcodes. Using this REST API, you can generate barcodes with appropriate code text location. Saaspose.Barcode supports barcode generation with checksum option and it allows rotating the barcode image with suitable angle. You can customize barcode size and set x and y dimensions of barcode as per your requirements. You can provide custom values for width and height of barcode image to generate images with better quality and readability. Similarly, Saaspose.Barcode allows you to specify barcode image margins or you may choose to set the height of bars in the barcode image. Using Saaspose.Barcode REST API, you can specify the format while saving the barcode image. It also facilitates you to specify the codetext and symbology for barcode in your PHP applications. Barcode generation and processing the generated image with a variety of features is a simple task without involving any complicated tasks. From barcode generation to customizing the barcode image resolution, Saaspose.Barcode provides a variety of features that you can incorporate in your applications by utilizing the PHP examples. You can use any required feature or you may choose to use a set of examples offered by this feature-rich API to incorporate the required features in your applications and get quality results in no time.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Barcode documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Barcode for performing different tasks like the followings.

WSO2Con 2013 will be held February 12-14, 2013 at the Park Plaza, Victoria in London, and it will be joined by a live stream event from the Cinnamon Lakeside in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Participants who register by December 15, 2012 can take advantage of the 20% early bird discount. For more information on the event, visit http://wso2con.com.

Keynote Speakers
The three guest keynote speakers at WSO2con 2013 are some of the world’s thought leaders and innovators in open source, cloud, SOA, enterprise applications, middleware, and infrastructure technologies.

“How Open Source Can Still Save the World,” Brian Behlendorf, World Economic Forum Senior Advisor for Science and Technology: Mr. Behlendorf recently completed a two-year stint as the Forum’s Geneva-based CTO, updating internal systems and IT processes, and connecting internal communities and initiatives to open technology concepts and leaders. Previously he worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as an advisor on open data, open government, and open source software. Mr. Behlendorf founded and was CTO of CollabNet where he continues to serve on the executive board of directors, and he is on the executive boards of the Mozilla foundation and Benetech. He also continues to help the Apache Software Foundation, which he co-founded in 1995.

“Democratizing Innovation in Computing,” Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi Foundation Founder and Trustee: A non-profit supported by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Broadcom, the Foundation’s aim is to promote the study of computer science and related topics. Mr. Upton is responsible for the software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi, a single-board computer designed to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools. He also is a technical director and ASIC architect at Broadcom, and he previously was a director of studies in computer science at St. John’s College, Cambridge.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET5.2.0 has been released. spose.BarCode for .NET 5.2.0 has been released. We are pleased to announce that from this version you can generate and recognize barcodes with custom width. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes and enhanced recognition according to the ECC standards. We’ve added error correction so that barcodes can be recognized even if they are partially damaged. The Aspose.BarCode for .NET API provides the handy BarCodeBuilder.GetOnlyBarCodeImage method whose overloads allow you to get a bitmap image with a barcode. You can also choose the GetCustomSizeBarCodeImage method which allows you set the size for a whole picture with a barcode in it. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version

Verify correct work of BarcodeReader.GetCheckSum().

Support ECC for 2D barcodes

Support custom barcode width

Rename DisplayText to Display2DText

AustraliaPost – improved removal of ReedSolomon values from codetext

Recognized symmetric code PatchCode

Code39 broken codetext is fixed

Wrong codetext returned from Datamatrix barcodes is now fixed

Pdf417 barcode recognition in png or jpg images is fixed.

Pdf417 recognition error with scaled picture is resolved

Aztec recognition file for old versions and for v.5.1.

Incorrect detection of last line in Pdf417 is fixed

EAN13 barcode is now recognized correctly from tif image.

EAN8 barcode is now recognized correctly from bmp file.

QR barcode is now recognized in jpg image

Recognition of QR barcodes from a tiff image

Garbage characters in read CodeText from Pdf417 is fixed

Rewrite quiet zone detection

Aztec recognition failure is fixed

Create ECC for recognition of Pdf417 barcode

VectorizedLine quiet zone is fixed

Rewrite toolkit GUI

Implement "zebra" preprocessing to improve the detection of multiplication factor.

Incorrect results when scanned Pdf417 is now fixed

1 out of 2 code39 barcodes are detected from scanned image

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.BarCode is a .NET component for generation and recognition of Linear and 2D barcodes on all kinds of .NET applications. It supports WPF with 29+ Barcode symbologies like OneCode, QR, Aztec, MSI, EAN128, EAN14, SSCC18, Code128, Code39, Postnet, MarcoPDF417, Datamatrix, UPCA etc. Other features include barcode insertion in PDF, Word and Excel documents. Also take image output in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and WMF formats. You can also control image styles such as background color, bar color etc.

When searching “Made in China” on Google, there are 1.6 billion results. How big the number is! This indicates that made-in-China has become a global phenomenon. But even now, when many foreigners talk or mention a made-in-China product, the words that occur to them first maybe “cheap and low quality”. In IT industry which was dominated by foreign enterprises before, such view is particularly common. However, this perception is not applicable to all Chinese made products and Raqsoft is among those which break that mindset.

Actually, according to a recent survey by Li-Ning, a leading Chinese athletic footwear and apparel Company, found that a growing number of consumers in the United States are willing to buy products of Chinese origin. Nowadays, quite a few Chinese brands in different industries have gained wide acceptance and appraise in the international market with their unremitting efforts. Even more made-in-China products are trying to win recognition of overseas customers. Raqsoft, the leading Chinese supplier for statistical computing and analytics software is no exception and differentiates itself from other similar tools with innovativity and creativity.

Most of people like to connect cheap price with low quality. But “cheap price” not always equals to “low quality”. Raqsoft and many other made-in-China IT products are changing that old notion with high quality just like esProc and esCalc, the two self-developed and cutting-edge data computing tools. Their special script and step by step computing mode make them more capable and ease of use compared with traditional statistical computing tools like SQL and Excel. Besides their high quality, they are really quite cost-effective, as they not only provide the lowest price, but also bridge the gap between business and IT as well as cut the enterprises’ labor and management cost.

“During 12 years development of statistical computing software, we always focus on products innovation and creation. Offering analysts with intelligent products is always our top priority. Now we are pleased to announce that esProc and esCalc, the tools which represent the new generation of business intelligence software will bring unexpected experience to business analysts,” Jiang Buxing, the president of Raqsoft says, “We are confident that these two tools will be a revolution from cars to trains on statistical computing and break the unfavorable stereotype of made-in-China IT products.”

A professional writer with experience of writing technique topics involving data analysis, data computation, BI and OLAP. Work for Raqsoft(http://www.raqsoft.com).

Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra scalable and interoperable cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications, today announced that it has launched its Beta with partner Planeetta Internet Oy, one of Northern Europe´s major hosting providers. Jelastic is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that runs any Java or PHP application with no lock-in or code changes required.

"We´ve been seeing a lot of interest in Finland for Jelastic, following our recent launches with in the US, Russia, Germany, UK, and Japan," said Jelastic COO Dmitry Sotnikov. "Our vision is to provide the world´s first global PaaS that is standards-based and doesn´t put limitations on developers or their code. Now, we´re available in Finland."

Jelastic is unlike other PaaS offerings in that it is available through a global network of hosting service providers, allowing developers to find the right hosting option for their region. Jelastic is the first cloud host that enables applications to be deployed in minutes instead of hours, without code changes, and no need to write for specific APIs. Developers pick and choose which stack components they need, and Jelastic auto-scales their applications automatically.

"Jelastic makes it easy and efficient to host Java and PHP sites and applications. You simply deploy your code to the cloud, and leave the server administration to Jelastic," said Lauri Kasti, CEO of Planeetta Internet. "We are thrilled to have Jelastic´s PaaS installed in our data center, which will enable cloud services for our Finnish customers that are unable to host overseas because of strict data protection laws."

Jelastic is fully compatible with all major Java software stacks, including Tomcat, GlassFish, and Jetty application servers - as well as with SQL (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) databases. For PHP, Jelastic allows developers to use or switch between any PHP version, access configuration files and change settings, and choose either Apache or NGINX. Every key PHP extension is available, and developers can download and add additional modules easily.

Jelastic is currently available commercially in the US with ServInt, in Russia with Rusonyx, in Germany with dogado, in the UK with Layershift, in Japan with Tsukaeru, and now, in Finland with Planeetta. Finnish developers can try Jelastic immediately at www.planeetta.net/jelastic.

About Planeetta Internet Oy

Planeetta Internet is one of the leading hosting providers in Northern Europe providing a wide range of hosting services including IaaS and Managed Hosting for thousands of SME and Enterprise users. Planeetta offers cloud services from its strategically located data center in Helsinki, Finland, a crossroads for fast-growing Internet traffic between Russia and Western Europe. All services run on a high end redundant server farm and is backed by Planeetta´s dedicated support team, able provide support for even the most complex, high volume hosting needs. Please visit www.planeetta.net.

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc., based in Palo Alto, Calif., offers a Java and PHP server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java and PHP applications and allocates server resources, thus delivering true next generation Java and PHP cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at www.Jelastic.com.

The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.3.4 has been released. In this release, we have provided support for rendering TIFF image from worksheets. There is also an improvement in adding headers and footers to worksheets in the Page Setup options. This is a maintenance release where several important customer issues have been fixed. Issues pertaining to rendering (reading and writing Microsoft Excel files), charts, conditional formatting and the formula calculation engine have also been corrected. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

Support for TIFF format in Sheet-to-Image feature

Right footer is not above the center footer as in MS Excel

Out of Memory exception while converting Excel to PDF is fixed.

Arabic text became junk characters in the saved CSV file with UTF-8 is fixed

"Data may have been lost" error for the re-saved XLS file by Aspose.Cells is fixed in this new release.

"Excel found unreadable content….." error for Aspose.Cells’ generated report is resolved in this release.

Cell.getFormula() did not distinguish different named ranges with the same name but different scope is now fixed

Automatic title for PIE chart issue

Cell.getR1C1Formula() did not distinguish different named ranges with the same name but different scope

Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Cells for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Cells for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.Cells is a Java component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. Other features include creating spreadsheets, opening encrypted excel files, macros, VBA, unicode, formula settings, pivot tables, importing data from JDBC ResultSet and support of CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF, ODS and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007. It is compatible with Windows, Linux & Unix and supports all advanced features of data management, formatting, worksheet, charting and graphics

Industrie IT expertise in IT consulting and delivery will support growing base of WSO2 customers in Australia and increasing demand for open source solutions

Palo Alto, CA, USA and Sydney, Australia – November 26, 2012 – WSO2 and Industrie IT today announced a strategic partnership to deliver service-oriented architecture (SOA) and application integration solutions to enterprises in Australia. WSO2 (http://wso2.com/) delivers the industry’s most comprehensive middleware platforms for enabling SOA and composite application development and deployment on-premise and in the cloud. Industrie IT (http://www.industrieit.com/) is an IT services provider with a successful track record in large projects for the Australian government, financial services, and other enterprises.

Through the partnership, the growing base of Australian enterprises moving to the cloud can take advantage of WSO2’s 100% open source middleware with locally based, best-in-class IT implementation services from Industrie IT.

“Industrie IT has been moving enterprise operations into the cloud for several years now, and we’re finding that large businesses are increasingly gaining the confidence to shift core operations into an SOA,” said Managing Director of Industrie IT Con Zeritis.

“This shift is throwing a spotlight onto middleware that ties cloud-based operations together—and we have invested significant resources in researching the major offerings from across the vendor stack. In our view, WSO2 is one of the best completely open source middleware platforms available, and we are pleased to add it to our portfolio,” Zeritis said.

Under terms of the agreement, Industrie IT will use WSO2’s middleware to provide new and existing customers with on-premise and on-demand IT solutions for optimizing their business processes and operational efficiencies. Additionally, WSO2 will provide Industrie IT with technical, sales and marketing support to promote SOA adoption and help customers achieve the high availability, high performance, and flexibility they require for IT and business agility.

WSO2’s award-winning platforms include the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform (http://wso2.com/products/carbon) and WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos/), which are based on the same code to enable a seamless migration between on-premise and the cloud. All WSO2 software products are released under the Apache License 2.0, and they do not carry any licensing fees. World-class production support from WSO2 ensures that users can run mission-critical applications on the platforms with confidence.

“Enterprise IT customers in Australia are increasingly seeking the leading edge in innovation, greater flexibility, and lower cost of acquisition and ownership through open source technologies,” said WSO2 Vice President of Business Development and Product Design Jonathan Marsh. “We are thrilled to join forces with Industrie IT, bringing WSO2’s world-class support and open-source middleware platform together with Industrie IT’s strong record of success. This powerful combination provides winning solutions in Australia’s vibrant finance, energy, telecom, media, retail and government sectors.”

About Industrie IT
Launched in 2007, Industrie IT is an exciting and dynamic consulting practice that focuses on helping its clients develop and make the most of their enterprise online and digital capability. The company is dedicated to helping organizations in many industries create enterprise IT solutions where something special is required—addressing a business need that's unique, challenging, market changing or emerging. For more information, visit: http://www.industrieit.com.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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London, November 26, 2012 – Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) the leading provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, announced today that revenue grew 113% in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the third quarter of 2011.

Unit testing is on the rise as businesses recognize the potential effects from coding errors. Financial institutions and security companies frequently see the financial impact of software bugs. This has led to increased demand for unit testing tools.

Typemock recently noted that new customers from the financial sector made up about 15 percent of new unit testing demand in 2012 and security companies made up approximately 10 percent. With Typemock Isolator, companies are able to design better software, prevent bugs, create working software, and release to market quicker.

“Unit testing is increasingly recognized as a must-have for software developers and companies that care about their customers and thus the code quality of their applications. Typemock’s dedication to providing the best tools for unit testing and code quality has positively impacted the success of Typemock and our continued growth,” said Eli Lopian, founder and CEO of Typemock. “Agile has gone mainstream and adoption is on the rise. Organizations now realize that they cannot maintain the development speed of Agile without unit testing. Typemock is the pioneer and leader in enterprise unit testing, which is why many of the world’s largest companies choose us for their unit testing needs.”

About Typemock
The Isolator tool family enables easy unit testing of any .NET or C/C++ code (including legacy code and unwritten code).

Typemock was conceived in 2004 to help programmers become Agile through easy unit testing. Since the launch of the first version of Typemock Isolator in 2006, thousands of companies around the world use Typemock tools to make unit testing easy and to prevent bugs. Typemock users are developers from a wide range of sectors – such as defense, medical, and finance – that demand exceptionally high standards of quality and minimum bugs.

Saaspose has been quite successful in getting popular among mobile and web developers due to its useful collection of features for document processing. These APIs support different kinds of document processing and management tasks for MS Word documents, presentations, worksheets and images through web or mobile applications in the cloud. While processing your presentations you may come across scenarios where you need to convert the presentations to images using Saaspose.Slides and recognize text from images using Saaspose.OCR. Saaspose.Slides is a REST API that allows you to create, modify and convert presentations in the cloud whereas Saaspose.OCR is a REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning. Using these two REST APIs you can work with conversion of presentations and text recognition from images. Using Saaspose.Slides, you can convert presentations to different file formats such as images, worksheets etc. You can save a particular slide as image with default size or you may choose to save the slide as image with specified size. You can upload the presentation to Saaspose Storage using Saaspose REST API and can convert the uploaded file to images using Saaspose.Slides REST examples. You can also directly convert the presentations on your local system using Saaspose.Slides REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. Using Saapose.OCR REST API, you can recognize text from these images and save to the database. You can also recognize the font attributes from extracted text such as font type, font style and font size through Saaspose.OCR. It supports to recognize a collection of characters from images in different languages like English, French, and Spanish. For more information, please refer to Saaspose.Slides and Saaspose.OCR documentation. Saaspose.Slides is a platform independent API and you can process your presentations in any language across any platform. Saaspose.OCR recognizes a collection of characters from the extracted text and supports different programming languages support for optical character recognition and text extraction from images files. Using a combination of these two REST APIs, you can easily achieve quality results of conversion of slides to images and character recognition.

These Saaspose file format APIs have been designed to manipulate and process the documents in cloud across any platform. Saaspose APIs offer to work with MS Word documents, presentations, worksheets, images, barcode, etc. There might be a scenario where developers want to convert workbook elements to images using Saaspose.Cells and extract text from the images using Saaspose.OCR. Saaspose.Cells is a REST API that helps you create, manipulate and convert spreadsheets in the cloud whereas Saaspose.OCR is a REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning. Let’s have a look at how you can use these two REST APIs together to work with spreadsheets and text recognition. A workbook may contain a variety of objects such as auto shapes, charts, ole objects, pictures, etc. You can convert auto shape to image using Saaspose.Cells in your applications. This feature-rich API allows you to convert different charts in a workbook to images. You may choose to convert a single chart or all charts to images. Similarly, you can convert ole object in a workbook to image and convert the pictures to images as well. An ole object may contain different types of external objects and Saaspose.Cells supports the conversion of such objects to images in no time. Also, you can convert a whole worksheet to image using Saaspose.Cells REST API. Once you have performed conversion of workbook elements to images, you can use Saaspose.OCR REST API to recognize text from images and save it to the database. Saaspose.OCR supports a variety of fonts in different styles, like regular, bold, and italic, and different image formats. Saaspose.Cells eliminates the need of any complex operations involved in manipulating the workbooks or working with various elements of a worksheet. Conversion of worksheet objects to images is a significant aspect of worksheets and formatting is not compromised during the conversion to image. Saaspose.OCR recognizes a collection of characters from the extracted text provides support for optical character recognition and text extraction from images files using different programming languages. So using a combination of these two REST APIs, you can easily achieve quality results of image extraction and character recognition.

We are happy to announce the release of Aspose.Tasks for .NET 4.8.0. This release includes a new feature for applying different timescale settings to a project. It also includes enhancements such as rendering a project’s Gantt chart to a multipage TIFF and a one page image. In addition to the new feature and enhancements, this release also includes some important bug fixes. Below is the complete list of new features and important bug fixes included in this release.

Apply different timescale settings to a project

Implement project data rendering to PDF.

Rendering of whole Gantt chart to one image

Render Project to multipage TIFF

Render all the pages with a single API call (PDF, TIFF, other)

3 out of 4 constructors did not work and are not fixed

Tasks not shown in (Gantt chart view) when Newly created MPP opened in MSP 2010 is now fixed.

Blank Tasks name for MPP ver 2003 is now fixed

Aspose Task Ids Mismatch with MS Project is now fixed

Updated MPP 2003 project's Gantt view is now updated automatically

Extended Attributes Issue while reading MPP/XML is now resolved

Wrong start/finish dates for Manually Scheduled tasks

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Tasks for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Tasks for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.Tasks is a non-graphical .NET Project management component that enables .NET applications to read, write and manage Project documents without utilizing Microsoft Project. With Aspose.Tasks you can read and change tasks, recurring tasks, resources, resource assignments, relations and calendars. Aspose.Tasks is a very mature product that offers stability and flexibility. As with all of the Aspose file management components, Aspose.Tasks works well with both WinForm and WebForm applications.

Saaspose development team is pleased to announce the Saaspose SDK for Android developers is getting ready for release. Android developers can quickly add file processing APIs in their Applications. Saaspose APIs have gained immense popularity across the globe in such a small span of time. Being language independent, these APIs can be utilized in the applications using programming language of your choice such as .NET, Java, Ruby and PHP. Saaspose makes it easy for web and mobile app developers to work with Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Adobe PDFs, OpenDocument formats, barcodes, OCR and email formats and protocols in their apps.

Saaspose development team is currently working on Saaspose SDKs for Android to facilitate the Android developers for the document manipulation tasks in the applications. This effort would be of great help for the Android developers to use a variety of document manipulation features in the applications. The Android developers can enhance their applications by using Saaspose REST APIs and integrate the required features to manipulate different file formats in the cloud. This adds great benefit for the Android developers as our SDKs would help them achieving the desired results through simple and efficient steps in no time. For instance, you can extract text from documents, calculate formula in worksheets, convert PDF to images, extract images and slides from presentations and perform many such operations on the documents in your Android applications. You can add these file processing APIs in your Android applications easily and utilize the SDKs as per your requirements. Please refer to our comprehensive documentation of these file format APIs for more information and details on the features and SDKs. If you are not a part of Saaspose family, sign up now and integrate the feature-rich APIs in your Android applications. Get started with Saaspose APIs right away and enjoy a whole new experience of document manipulation. You can opt for the free development account to evaluate these APIs for your Android applications. You may choose to upgrade to our monthly pricing plans that have been prepared to offer you the best value for your required package. Stay tuned to our blog and newsletter for latest updates on Android SDKs and the release announcements. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries, confusions or suggestions regarding Saaspose SDKs for Android.

The new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 5.0.0 has been released. We are pleased to announce that the new release by porting all the features from the current version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 5.0.0 has introduced some great new features, enhancements to existing features and resolutions to a number of reported issues. From now on, the .NET and Java versions of Aspose.BarCode will stay synchronized so that our Java users will not have to wait for feature that our .NET users already have. This release also includes support for new barcode symbologies like DatabarExpanded, DatabarOmniDirectional, DatabarTruncated, DatabarLimited, Pharmacode & SCC14. Below is the list of main new and improved features added in this release

Recognition for RM4SCC

Turkish characters are now properly encoded with Pdf417

Barcodes recognition improvement with vector algorithm support

Port Aspose.Barcode for .Net to Java and publish version 4.5

Avoid public reference of common types along different Java products

Improved BarCode reading performance

Now can recognize Code128 from PNG

improved recognition of Code128 from diagonally oriented barcode

Barcodes with binarization algorithm are now recognized.

Code39 barcode is now recognized in jpg image.

Recognition of Code128 from PNG is fixed

Aztec barcode Recognition problem is resolved

Only one barcode is recognized from an image that has 2 barcodes is now fixed

Barcode visibility in png during Aztec barcode generation is fixed

DeutschePostLeitcode Barcode is now recognized in png image.

Red cross barcode image generation is fixed

Pdf417 image is now recognized

Fix error setExpectedBarCodeCount

Unable to scan CodeBar NW-7 is now fixed

Code128 Barcodes is now recognized in Pdf file correctly

PDF417 barcode is now recognized correctly

Recognize QR and Code39 barcodes from Pdf

Interleaved2of5 BarCode now recognized in png image

Aztec barcode can be recognized in Java

Code39Standard symbology barcodes are recognized in PNG and JPG images

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

On Nov.15,2012, e-icbelue starts to launch Christmas and New Year sales promotion. Customers who purchase our components during 2012.11.15 to 2013.01.15 will enjoy a special discount from 10% up to 20%.

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WSO2 webinar on November 27, will examine how to rapidly create, develop and deploy applications to different lifecycle environments with a single click

Palo Alto, CA – November 19, 2012 – Whether on-premise or in the cloud, the rapidly growing number of applications generated today demands a managed approach for the application delivery process. However, traditional enterprise application development models struggle to accommodate high volumes while adhering to desired governance processes. As a result, IT teams often experience difficulty accessing server and application resources within development, test and production environments. To help IT professionals address this challenge, WSO2 will present a webinar that examines how to apply managed application development best practices using the WSO2 App Factory (currently in alpha).

The one-hour technical session, “Introducing the WSO2 App Factory – Platform for a Smooth App Development Process," is being held twice on Tuesday, November 27: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PDT for the Americas and 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. GMT for Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit. http://wso2.org/library/webinars/2012/11/introducing-wso2-app-factory-platform-smooth-app-development-process.

Streamlining the Application Development Process

The webinar will begin with an introduction to the WSO2 App Factory (http://wso2.com/solutions/app-factory), including key features and core capabilities. Then the session will examine how it integrates with existing tools to provide a complete software development lifecycle (SDLC) tool chain, including source control, build management, and deployment. The webinar also will demonstrate the integrated developer experience of WSO2 middleware with WSO2 Developer Studio. Additionally, the session will discuss how the WSO2 App Factory:
· Supports managed application development.
· Can be customized to existing governance policies.
· Supports application development to public and private clouds.
· Integrates to existing infrastructure.
· Seamlessly engages with WSO2 Governance Registry.
· Can be used to develop any kind of application.
· Allows sharing of infrastructure among all applications.

The webinar will be presented by Dimuthu Leelarathne, WSO2 architect and co-chair of the WSO2 platform technologies management committee. Dimuthu focuses on cloud technologies, the WSO2 Carbon Framework, and WSO2 Identity Server. An expert in Java and Java-related technologies, she is an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) committer, serving as a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Axis2, where she played an initial role overlooking the deserialization process of the Axis-Mora project. Additionally, she has contributed to the Apache Rampart and WSS4J projects.

About WSO2

WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog (http://wso2.com/blogs), Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

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Saaspose development team is very happy to announce the Windows Azure storage Integration with Saaspose File Format REST API. Saaspose team has always been putting efforts to give you a remarkable experience of cloud computing on 3rd party platforms. As we have previously introduced support for Google Drive storage, Amazon S3 storage and Dropbox storage integration with Saaspose APIs, we are pleased to announce that Saaspose now supports Windows Azure storage. You can store your files in the cloud through Windows Azure storage and process your documents with the help of Saaspose file format APIs.

The configuration of Windows Azure storage is simple and quick, and you can integrate it with Saaspose through a set of simple steps. Firstly, you need to create an application at Windows Azure and get the “Account name” and “Account key”. Then sign in at Saaspose and open “My Storage”, select “Windows Azure Storage” from “Create New Storage” list on Saaspose. On “Create Windows Azure Storage” page, provide the required data in the fields. You need to provide “Storage Name”, “Account Name” and “Account Key” in the form fields. Click “Save” to confirm the provided information and enjoy using Windows Azure storage with Saaspose API. Saaspose file format APIs allow you to process your files and perform multiple operations on your documents. You can upload your documents on Windows Azure storage and choose from a variety of features to manipulate the documents. For example, you can upload your presentations on the storage and save single slide or multiple slides as images using Saaspose.Slides REST API. Similarly, you can also extract text,extract images, convert documents to other file formats, and calculate formula in a worksheet using Saaspose APIs for different file formats such as PDF files, presentations, documents and images uploaded on Windows Azure storage. Windows Azure storage integration with Saaspose APIs has added the flexibility to process your files from external storage providers helps you access your files and process them with a wide range of REST API features. Stay tuned to our newsletter and blog for the latest updates about storage integration. We look forward to your valuable feedback to improve our services, or you may write to us in case of any queries.

Banckle has always worked on the important aspects of privacy and security while designing its applications. Banckle Meeting ensures to provide security for your meeting’s confidential content and other information that you do not want to share. Let it be private for non-meeting participants or the ones participating in the meeting, Banckle Meeting provides full control to the meeting host for security measures. We at Banckle understand the importance of data confidentiality and access permissions for the meeting participants.

You can restrict the audience of online meeting only to the people that are allowed to participate in the meeting. While scheduling an online meeting, you can choose to apply password on your meeting. This password would be sent to the allowed participants along with their invitation to the meeting. Your invitees have to enter this password while joining the web conferencing, eLearning or online meeting session. While starting a new meeting right away, you can set a password in the Meet Now dialog. Password-protected online meetings ensure that the privacy and security of meeting session are not compromised.

Relevant Discussions and Documentation pages

Some new tips and discussions have recently been added into Banckle Online Meeting documentation that may help to perform numerous Online Meeting, Webianrs and Web Conferencing features with easy and for maximum productivity

Banckle Online Meeting is a lightweight and platform independent web conferencing, webinars, audio and video conferencing solution that allows you to collaboratively participate in rich-media online meetings and conducting interactive eLearning sessions online. Share your full screen or an application, PowerPoint presentations or whiteboards with your clients and colleagues from around the globe. It enables you to start or schedule meetings at your choice and gives you all the power to prepare meeting materials on your computer, set and share meeting agenda, invite attendees from inside and outside and monitor all meeting activities.
Read more about Banckle Online Meeting

We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Diagram for .NET 2.8.0. We are pleased to announce that this release supports refreshing the data of shapes linked from Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and SQL server databases. Based on this feature, Aspose.Diagram for .NET API provides the handy Refresh method whose overloads allow you to specify the appropriate connection type. A new Shape member, the OneD property has been introduced. This determines whether the shape behaves as a one-dimensional object. This release also includes the most recent bug fixes and enhanced HTML5 standard compatibility. This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

Add support for Shape.OneD property for all shapes.

[Diagram.DataRecordSets] API to refresh record sets

Support refresh of data in linked shapes for all rendered formats.

Calculating type of provider by connection string to have method Refresh without parameters.

Support possibility to refresh data in linked shapes from MS Excel file.

Support possibility to refresh data in linked shapes from SQL Server database.

Support possibility to refresh data in linked shapes from MS Access database.

Check HTML5 compliance for export to HTML.

Call out shapes are rendered as black boxes during VSD to PDF conversion is now fixed

Create Demo App to show how to update the data in linked shapes.

Arrow lines are now properly aligned during VSD to PDF conversion

DiagramExceptions occurs when loading some vdx files.

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.Diagram for .NET documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Aspose.Diagram for performing different tasks like the followings.

Aspose.Diagram is a class library for working with MS Visio files & is a pure .NET alternate for MS Visio Object Model.It enables developers to work with VSD & VDX files on ASP.NET web applications, web services & Windows applications. It makes use of the advanced functionality of Visio's services to manipulate Visio docs on a server. Developer can open files & manipulate the elements of the diagram, from lines and fills, to more complex elements, and then export to native Visio formats or XML.

New case study examines how [x+1] analyzes 4 TB of data and billions of user profiles and records with the Aerospike database to provide businesses’ customers with relevant offers

Mountain View, CA – November 14, 2012 – Companies understand that customer loyalty is only as strong as the consumer’s last experience. Increasingly these businesses are turning to [x+1] to deliver superior, personalized interactions across their various online channels.

A new case study examines how [x+1] reliably processes some 4 TB of data and billions of user profiles and records using the Aerospike (formerly Citrusleaf) real-time NoSQL database and key-value store. The full [x+1] case study is available at: http://www.aerospike.com/why-aerospike/customers.

The new case study examines the multi-channel marketing demands that led [x+1] to choose Aerospike. It also reviews how the proof of concept cemented the company’s decision to move into production with Aerospike clusters in each of its four U.S. data centers. Key benefits that [x+1] has realized with Aerospike include:
* Reliably manages 4 TB of data linked to 1.7 billion profiles and 2 billion user records, and scales to handle billions of key values without compromising performance.
* Analyzes thousands of attributes to return a response within 4 ms, and delivers 10 relevant options to a business’ Web page within 50 ms.
* Enables 100% uptime and no degradation in performance even during automatic rebalancing and data migration that happens in the event of node failure and during routine rolling upgrades and hardware backups and restores.
* Minimizes IT overhead with native flash-optimizations that result in dramatically lower server costs.

“Using Aerospike, we’re able to plug thousands of audience attributes into our proprietary engine and analyze predictive behavior within 4 ms,” said Patrick DeAngelis, [x+1] CTO. “And when clients call out to us, we’re able to respond with 10 options in less than 50 ms. Providing fast reliable access to data in real-time is simple to say, but it’s not easy to do. It’s also the reason so many marketers rely on us. Aerospike allows us to deliver at the speeds our clients need and has proven that our choice to buy—not build—was the right decision.”

“[x+1] is the marketing platform of choice for Global 1000 companies that understand the need to make the most of every customer interaction at every touch point with compelling, personalized offers,” said Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike founder and CTO. “We are thrilled by the success of [x+1] in using our Aerospike database to deliver relevant offers within milliseconds across the Web, email, mobile and social media channels that consumers use to interact with businesses today, building brand value and strengthening customer loyalty.”

About [x+1]
[x+1] is a marketing technology provider that combines a leading enterprise data management platform (DMP) with multi-channel execution capabilities powered by a patented real-time decision engine, Web Services APIs and advanced analytics. Top companies in financial services, automotive, retail, CPG, telecommunications, online services and travel have significantly increased the performance of their digital marketing investment by using [x+1]'s solutions and services. [x+1] has been singled out as a 'leader' in "The Forrester Wave™: Demand-Side Platforms, Q4 2011.” To learn more about [x+1], visit http://www.xplusone.com.

About Aerospike
Aerospike, Inc. offers the only real-time NoSQL database and key-value store that delivers predictable high performance for mission-critical, Web-scale applications. Aerospike’s flash-optimized, shared-nothing architecture scales linearly, consistently processing over 300k transactions per second per node with sub-millisecond latency. With automatic fail-over, replication, and cross data center synchronization, the Aerospike database reliably stores billions of objects and terabytes of data—while providing 100% uptime and a 10x improvement in TCO over other NoSQL databases. Customers accelerating their business with Aerospike include adMarketplace, eXelate, Sony’s So-net, and The Trade Desk. For more information, visit www.Aerospike.com.

Aerospike is a registered trademark of Aerospike, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

New position will expand on Devaka Randeniya’s central role in growing global 1000 adoption of WSO2’s award-winning enterprise middleware and cloud platforms

Palo Alto, CA – November 14, 2012 – WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware company, today announced the promotion of Devaka Randeniya to vice president of sales. Devaka first joined WSO2 in 2006 and most recently served as senior director of sales. As vice president, Devaka will build on the central role he has played in growing the adoption of WSO2’s award winning enterprise middleware (http://wso2.com/products/carbon) and cloud platforms (http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos) by Global 1000 companies worldwide. Additionally, he will expand WSO2’s sales presence across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. With this promotion, Devaka is relocating to WSO2 headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

“From the start, our mission has been to deliver solutions that address enterprises’ real-world application development and integration demands,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “Devaka has been instrumental in enabling us to execute on that vision by working closely with our customers and partners to ensure that they have the technology, services and training to succeed. As our business continues to accelerate, we are well-positioned for the next stage of growth with Devaka at the helm of our sales team and programs.”

Since joining WSO2 in November 2006, Devaka has served as director of business development, director of sales, senior director of sales, and now vice president of sales. He has extensive experience in the financial services, telecom and government sectors. Devaka also has deep expertise working with independent software developers (ISVs) and Web 2.0 companies, and he has played a pivotal role in building strategic partnerships with large system integrators.

“Having joined WSO2 as the very first sales person, I have been in a unique position to witness the significant growth and maturity of the company,” Devaka observed. “During the past seven years, we have been able to acquire an impressive global customer base that complements a world-class technology platform. I'm thrilled to be part of this amazing team that has achieved so much, and I look forward to helping drive WSO2 to its next stage of evolution and successes.”

Prior to joining WSO2, Devaka was a business analyst in the R&D division of Virtusa Inc., a global system integrator company. There he focused on integration middleware and open source technologies. He also was involved in analyst research with Gartner in the Web services technology and open source software markets. Devaka is a professional graduate of the British Computer Society UK, and he has an MBA from University of NorthWest, USA.

About WSO2
WSO2 is the lean enterprise middleware company. It delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud. WSO2’s service and support team is led by technical experts who have proven success in deploying enterprise SOAs and contribute to the technology standards that enable them. For more information, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.

Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Jelastic Inc., the creators of the most innovative Java cloud hosting platform, today announced the integration of the Jelastic platform with Eclipse, the most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java development. The Jelastic plug-in for Eclipse significantly facilitates development and deployment of Java EE projects on this platform as developers can manage their deployments and hosting environments without switching between the IDE and the browser.

Jelastic platform is an innovative PaaS that received the Duke´s Choice Award 2012 - the Java community´s most prestigious prize for technology leaders. The key priority of Jelastic´s creators is to make cloud hosting of Java apps as easy as possible: that is why the platform supports integration with the most popular build systems (Maven, Ant, Hudson and Jenkins) and can now be integrated with Eclipse IDE. A special plug-in for Eclipse makes development of Java EE web applications on the Jelastic platform much more convenient, since the developer can now log in to Jelastic and deploy the app in the cloud right from Eclipse.

The Jelastic plug-in for Eclipse provides the developer with the following useful functions:
- Ability to manage (start, stop, and so on) user environments,
- Deploy Eclipse projects to Jelastic,
- Access server log files, and much more.

All these functions are available from the Eclipse interface. Why is this so important? Even though Jelastic platform is designed to be very simple and user-friendly, it still can be very distracting and inconvenient to constantly switch between Eclipse and a browser. For many Java developers, Eclipse is at the core of their activities, so they will appreciate the opportunity to deploy an app in the cloud right from a familiar IDE.

In the future, plug-ins for integration with other widely used IDEs will also be available.

Company:

Jelastic, Inc., a startup company based in Palo Alto, Calif., makes the Java server hosting platform for developers and hosting service providers. Jelastic is the only PaaS offering designed specifically for hosting service providers to deploy and make available to their customers. Jelastic automatically scales Java applications and allocates server resources required by applications, thus delivering the true next generation Java cloud computing. You can learn more about Jelastic or sign-up for the service for free at http://jelastic.com